Visiting Assistant Professor of Design
M. ARCH Harvard University
BA UCLA
Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Cameron
McNall is an artist and architect who explores ideas through a variety
of media. In addition to UCLA he has taught at Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, Texas A&M, and SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute
of Architecture.) A partial list of fellowships and honors he has received
include the Rome Prize in Architecture, the Young Architects award of
the Architectural League, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
in Architecture, the New York A.I.A. Brunner Grant (twice), the NEA Fellowship
in Sculpture, the Augustus St. Gaudens Fellowship in Sculpture, the P.S.1
Studio Fellowship, the Massachusetts Art Council Grant.
Two interests have guided Cameron's work for
many years: the relationship between images and form (2-D to 3-D), and
an
obsession with light and shadow. Often these interests are combined in
projects such as this on at Art on the Beach
in New York in 1987. The translucent panels of the structure register
the shadows of shapes attached to its front. The public ascends stairs
to walk between the shapes and their shadows and in turn also becomes
part of the ephemeral shadow play.
Terra
Metallum is a huge construction built at Artpark in 1991. The
shape of the irregular perforated metal face mimics the triangulated facets
of a polygonal computer representation.
This exploration of structure to irregular form was continued in the Byron Avenue Addition.
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